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Because grandma doesnt deserve to live on cat foodFound on the Facebook page of USAction
msongs
(67,405 posts)truedelphi
(32,324 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)otherwise I would be living in poverty now at age 73.
abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)Why do so many seem willing to return to those days?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... I can only rec this once.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)which started in the 1930's.
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)more like 99%. This way there will be more serfs to mind their kingdom.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Keep saying that, not because it's easy to remember (though it is) but because it's true.
emilyg
(22,742 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)FreeBC
(403 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)Jeebus, those of us who remember Ike are getting old.
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)by our neo-republican "new Democrat" replacements...
whathehell
(29,067 posts)because we actually remember "how things were". before Reagan
and the big Republican/Blue Dog onslaught....We remember a better, very DIFFERENT
America and we can keep that memory alive and REMIND others
what the word "Democrat" really means!
bvar22
(39,909 posts)Among these are:
*The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation;
*The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation;
*The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living;
*The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad;
*The right of every family to a decent home;
*The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health;
*The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident, and unemployment;
*The right to a good education.
All of these rights spell security. And after this war is won we must be prepared to move forward, in the implementation of these rights, to new goals of human happiness and well-being.
America's own rightful place in the world depends in large part upon how fully these and similar rights have been carried into practice for all our citizens."--- FDR, Economic BIll of Rights
There was a time, not so long ago, when voting FOR the Democratic Party
was voting FOR the above values.
Sadly, this is no longer true.
You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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whathehell
(29,067 posts)Unfortunately, the Dems have been slipping to the Right for too long.
So often, I feel like I'm an "historian" for younger people who didn't know,
for instance, that we did NOT have a "homeless problem" in this country
until the Reagan Administration or that support for Labor "was", at least,
a CORNERSTONE of the Democratic party,
I'm getting truly disgusted....Medicare and Social Security are the Last Straws...If
these "democrats" renege on that, my husband and I are out of here.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)screwed if not for Social Security. I was disabled (car accident) when I was 47. I could no longer work. My youngest had just graduated high school. As a single mother, I was starting to get to a relatively secure place - was entertaining thoughts of traveling - when BLAM! everything was turned upside down and inside out. If there was no Social Security, I cannot even imagine where I would be today. And I would have NO health care coverage because I became a pre-existing condition the instant that car slammed into us.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)many seniors, probably far more than we might estimate.
It will also mean guilt-tripping young people, impoverishing young families and destroying the social fabric of the country.
It is insane. It is self-destructive -- since so many Republican voters are seniors. It is a sure sign of the demise of the Republican mystique, the Republican Party. They have no solutions for the problems we face as a nation.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)whathehell
(29,067 posts)We need so many more like you!
otherone
(973 posts)yes
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Blue Owl
(50,361 posts)n/t
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)just saw it on my facebook page an hour ago. of course all my friends are democrats or retired .
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)gets a whopping pension of $187 a month from an editor position he held for 13 years. No COLAS, no increases whatsoever. Were it not for S.S., he'd be DEAD!
Keep on it, Senator Sanders.
K&R
Uncle Joe
(58,361 posts)Thanks for the thread, Playinghardball.
TfG
(61 posts)for fighting for what has been the most successful program. I shudder to think what it would be like without Social Security. Many would be destitute without it. Wish there was more like Sanders.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)A true Leader and man of The People.